MetaChat - Metachat Holiday Card Exchange!

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20 November 2008

Metachat Holiday Card Exchange! Oh yea, we're doing it again this year→[More:] The instructions are the same as last year:

1. Email me at the address in my profile with your name, MeCha screen name, mailing address, email address where you want the mailing list sent, and anything else you'd like people to know (winter holiday of choice, etc.) Signup deadline is November 30.

2. I will use my mad Word skillz to create the address list and send it out to everyone who signed up on December 1.

3. Send cards out.

4. Receive lots of cards from fellow bunnies and feel loved. : )

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 13:10 | 25 comments

Last year, I sent out almost 150 Christmas Mix Cds. I got MAYBE 30 cards in return. Bah Humbug.

posted by ColdChef 20 November | 13:28

This year, tit for tat!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 November | 13:30

For the curious, last year we did 4 groups of 12. You only have to send to the people in your group = 11 cards to send. Each group had one or two people outside the US.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 November | 13:40

I don't know what "tat" is, but I'm definitely interested.

posted by ColdChef 20 November | 13:43

I got MAYBE 30 cards in return.

ColdChef, if you add me to your Christmas CD list, I GUARANTEE that you will get a card from me. In print for accountability.

posted by initapplette 20 November | 13:56

I already bought cards with bunnies on. But I put them away somewhere safe and now I can't find them. I expect they'll turn up the day after I've posted all my replacement cards.

posted by essexjan 20 November | 14:26

I'm in. I punted on the fabric bunny exchange (link?) but I did the Xmas card one and it was awesome.

posted by TrishaLynn 20 November | 14:32

I'm going to opt out, even though it's awesome, because I know myself well enough to understand that it just won't happen.

posted by Stewriffic 20 November | 14:46

I'm in!

posted by goo 20 November | 14:53

But I put them away somewhere safe and now I can't find them.

The ones I sent last year were actually my Christmas cards from two years prior, which I had left in the laundry room of my girlfriend's old apartment some cold December night. We went to grab her bike last year (a friend of hers still lives there), and I realized what had happened so long before.

So. Don't worry. If my experience serves as any kind of sign, you'll find them eventually.

posted by pokermonk 20 November | 14:54

initapplette Email me your address. If IFIFIF I send out a cd this year, you'll get one. That goes for any of you other bastards, too. But I ain't making promises.

posted by ColdChef 20 November | 15:21

I'm notoriously bad about sending cards... but for you lovely ladies (and men), I'm going to make an exception this year!

posted by jonathanstrange 20 November | 16:05

I made it two years ago, then sputtered out last year. This year I already have the cards, so maybe I should opt in.

posted by tangerine 20 November | 16:36

I sent you an email, TPS. Thanks for organizing this.

posted by LoriFLA 20 November | 16:40

On board!

If you want cool stamps from Poland, people, you better sign up!

posted by mdonley 20 November | 18:12

Ugh, I am so uncertain about this. I mean it's amazing fun and I totally want to get lots of cards from people like the last two years, but I don't want to commit and then not come through, like I have for everything else I've wanted to do this quarter.

posted by muddgirl 20 November | 18:43

I have always enjoyed this; it's one of the few things I like about holidaytime.

posted by jessamyn 20 November | 18:54

15 signups so far! Woooooo!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 November | 19:35

I will attempt to do this again! I'm moving in December though, so actually getting them might be tricky.

posted by casarkos 20 November | 19:56

i'll email you tomorrow tps.

posted by gaspode 20 November | 23:18

I'm in! Now I need to get off my butt and get me some cards.

posted by rhapsodie 21 November | 01:09

Maybe via and I will just send out the signed and addressed cards from last year's exchange that we never got around to mailing. Yeah, we're on top of things.

posted by kyleg 21 November | 01:42

OH NOES! I used up all my creativity last year! Count me in again tho, and I'll see what we can squeeze out. PLUS I promise to send ColdChef some tat!
ColdChef, FWIW, I can vouch that initapplete is indeed a QUALITY card swapper, A+++ would swap holiday cards again, etc.

posted by goshling 21 November | 07:47

I only sent cards to the 12 peoples I was supposed to ColdChef??? (and I got no CD) but I guarantee you a special tat from me this Xmas if you like!

posted by Wilder 21 November | 13:03

Could a mod put this post on the sidebar?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 22 November | 13:25

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